Comments on: Does Blog Posting Frequency Matter?

By: Frequent Blogging, Book Marketing and Not Being a Freelance Writer

Frequent Blogging, Book Marketing and Not Being a Freelance Writer — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:45:51 +0000

[...] old post at FWJ to embrace her (sort of) new blog, Kommein. In a recent article she discussed the value of frequent blog posting. The key things to remember are that frequent posts (one or two a day usually) keep you on your [...]

By: Tambre

Tambre — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:16:25 +0000

Blogging has definitely boosted the number of visitors to my site. Posting links to my blogs on Facebook is where I seem to be making the most connections, not Twitter or LinkedIn…yet. My first weekly newsletter debut broke my highest numbers of visitors in one day. I blog five days a week at this point. Like LPC, I would love to be doing four but the consistency of five seems to keep readership up. I lose hits on the weekends and have considered finding a way to do at least one weekend blog as more people may have extra time to read on non-work days…perhaps I’ll trade a Wednesday for a Saturday. So, yes to blogging regularly…it works (I’m sure as stated above with the caveat the material is quality)…weekly newsletter is a must for my coaching business…so yes to this. What is unclear is what readers would prefer to read ~ more fact based tips ‘n tools about how to use coaching in your life to make incredible changes or whether they enjoy my more personal stories that always touch on a life lesson but are not necessarily how to type articles. I just keep treating things like an experiment. Great dialogue! Thanks for posting this discussion.

By: Jean Sarauer

Jean Sarauer — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:10:35 +0000

Three times a week seems to be best for my audience in terms of truly reading/interacting with the post. My posts are often a bit on the longish side, and I find when I have a day or so in between posts there are more comments, emails, and tweets than when I post more than that.

By: LPC

LPC — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:43:52 +0000

I am currently having just this debate with myself. Even asked the question on Twitter – was my frequency enough, too much, not enough. I got “Enough verging on we want more.” It’s really hard to put good stuff out there more than about 4 times a week. For me. But I sense that 5/week would be just right for my audience, so maybe I will try to turn the dial up just a bit.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:11:05 +0000

Yes, I think it does, because when I have a flurry of posting often, interest and traffic rise. However, I don’t think that means you need to post every day. As long as readers know what to expect and they like your stuff, they will come when you post. That’s been my experience, though I will admit that if I posted several times a day I’d probably have a community twice or three times the size it is now. Slow growth works for me at the moment, though.

By: Wendi Kelly

Wendi Kelly — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:33:37 +0000

I agree with you that it is consistency rather than frequency that matters to me. Although I find it hard to keep up with the ones that post more than once a day, and even those that post daily, I may catch up with a few times a week and read a few at a time. As a subscriber, I come to depend on the bloggers who I can count on being there week after week and tend to put them at the top of my reading list and the sporadic posters I get around to when I have extra time.